I tend to notice that because I have Celiac/Sprue.

absolutely brilliant. better than i could have said it. way to hit the nail on the head, buddy. I find the soap aspects this season borderline INSANE. beyond idiotic at this point.

I’m all for a good TV romance done right, but this House/Cuddy business is just ridiculous.

Its as if the writers are purposely pandering to the under-18 portion of the demographic. Why they are doing so, I have no idea. I would have thought them to be by far the minority of viewers. Maybe Im wrong and all this shameless one-dimensional juvenile-ness on what is supposed to be an adult show will prove well-placed as everyone above college age gets disgusted to the point of tuning out, only to be replaced by teenage fans everywhere.

“I find it hard to believe that bullet fragments significant enough to cause Stewart’s symptoms would be missed on the x-ray. Hint: the hip should have no bright white spots on the x-ray. I also find it quite a stretch that bullet fragments in for seven years could be removed so easily.”
This makes sense, but for one small thing… mistakes DO happen, and although they probably would show up on x-ray, the patient is an agoraphobe, and more than likely, his follow up care would have been pretty non-existent. I imagine he would have checked out as early as possible, and would not have returned for something like a follow up x-ray. Remember, the patient claimed he would rather die in his house than live outside… is it really that big a stretch to assume he wouldn’t have cared enough for anything more than the most important emergency treatment.

“Chlorine gas is extremely irritating (watery eyes, cough, sore throat), and would be hard for him to miss being exposed.”
Also true… but a lot of cleaning products are irritating. I find that most simple, every-day cleaning products cause this sort of reaction for me, even without mixing them… If he had ALWAYS cleaned that way (which it seemed to imply he did) why would he assume anything other than that he was particularly sensitive to cleaning chemicals.

“Surgery is not first line for partial small bowel obstruction.”
No, i’m sure it’s not, but it is a very good excuse to trick a patient into coming in to hospital. Remember, many of the “treatments” were designed to convince the patient he needed to go into the hospital. While it is probably true there would be other options, i guess the theory was that few other options would also double as an excuse to “put him under” and take him to the hospital. I think it was clear that had the surgery taken place, house never intended for him to return home, and expected to continue the diagnosis, in the hospital, where he always wanted him to be. This is evidenced by his lack of argument to Cuddy’s insistence that post-op couldn’t take place at the patients home, and his future attempts to “make staying more painful than leaving” by depriving him morphine.

“Wouldn’t Stewart be suspicious that there was no anaesthetist or anaesthesiologist? And once again, no eye protection during the surgery.”
No, I don’t think he would. You’re a doctor, and know what to expect, most of us wouldn’t know the difference between an anaesthetist and a nurse when going in for major surgery, There were at least 5 other doctors present aside from chase, it is fair to assume that Stewart was not well versed in OR procedure, and simply assumed that with all of the doctors present there would be enough to safely perform the surgery, that between them they would have all the roles within the procedure wrapped up. Before going in to surgery i don’t think many of us would ask who will be doing what, and would just assume that the doctors know what they were doing.

True, but I’m not talking about knowing the name, I’m talking about being there at the very moment, all freaked out, with bunch of creepy people in white outfits and goofy ninja masks.

And you’re telling me you can tell their exact specializations and what they’ll do after you pass out? ;)
“Hmmm, the black guy kinda looks like a neurologist… holy c”p! I’m having my appendix out! He’s not qualified to do this surgery! Get me out of here!”